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Ships Are Friend: See also AERONAUTICS—5. Aerial Navigation (Dead Reckoning): Doppler Navigation; NAVI--CATION—Piloting.
IFF Equipment.—The great tactical ability of radar to detect and track aircraft and ships far beyond the range of human vision requires some means of learning whether such aircraft and ships are friendly or hostile. A class of . radar equipment termed "identification, friend or foe (IFF)" fulfills this specialized function.
Armi decks also were introduced in the newer riers.Other Ships.—Besides the principal wars described separately, navies maintain nume auxiliary ships, including submarine ten (AS), destroyer tenders (AD), oilers (A hospital ships (AH), attack transports (AI attack cargo ships (AKA), and ammunition s (AE). Many specialized types of these ve< and various landing craft were developed in < nection with amphibious warfare operation: World War II. More than 100 different tj of landing craft grew out of that conflict, am them infantry landing ships (LSI), tank lane ships (LST), and landing craft—persoi (LCP).
The picture was painted on the same day that he received news of the death of his old friend Julio Gonzalez, a fellow sculptor who used to join him in many of his experiments in Boisgeloup. There are two ways in which suffering appears to be taken for granted in this painting: his grief over his friend's death and his despair of the times unite in a cheerless memento mori that could not have been formulated more desperately by any of the Christians of the Middle Ages. |
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